Publication Date: March 24, 2011
These vintage fairy stories have left an indelible mark on Western tradition, a testomony to the brilliance and talent of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

About the Author
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786 1859), have been German teachers top identified for publishing collections of people stories and fairy stories, which grew to become well known. Jacob additionally did educational paintings in linguistics, on the topic of how the sounds in phrases shift over the years (Grimm's law), and jointly they wrote a German dictionary. they're one of the best-known tale tellers of folks stories from Europe, and their paintings popularized such stories as "Rumpelstiltskin"(German: Rumpelstilzchen), "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "Rapunzel", "Cinderella"(German: Aschenputtel), "Hansel and Gretel(German: Hänsel und Gretel)", and "The Frog Prince"(German: Der Froschkonig).

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